Sunday, September 29, 2013

New Music Monday for September 30, 2013

Steve Turre recalls, “When I was ten years old,
I wanted to play violin. My dad said, ‘Beginning violin sounds like a cat in
the alley. Pick a horn.’” It is probably safe to say that the jazz world has
been immeasurably enriched because of the senior Mr. Turre’s dislike of the
violin. His son has won any number of Downbeat Critic’s and Reader’s Polls and
has been a fixture in the “Saturday Night Live” band for nearly thirty years.
He has, almost single-handedly, squashed the trumpet-saxophone front line monopoly
and has circumnavigated the globe several times with his most recent forays
overseas taking him to Russia and South Africa. For his new CD, Turre has
assembled a completely unique ensemble including three other trombone-playing
Art Blakey alumni, hence the title, “The Bones of Art.” With Steve Davis, Frank
Lacy and Robin Eubanks, Steve and company give ample testimony to the fact that
the golden age of the trombone is now.

Keyboardist/composer/producer
Jeff Lorber, heralded by Keyboard magazine as “one of the founding fathers of
fusion,” returns with his Grammy-nominated power trio the Jeff Lorber Fusion, featuring bassist/co-producer Jimmy Haslip and
saxophonist Eric Marienthal. Since the late 1970s, this contemporary jazz
collective has blended elements of jazz, funk, R&B and world music into a
distinctive sound that has connected with audiences from a variety of
continents, cultures and generations. In more recent years, the group’s studio
efforts, influenced by extensive touring throughout Europe and Asia, have been
colored with vibrant shades of dance and house music. These same colors are at
the forefront of their new release, “Hacienda,” which features guest shots from
Jean-Luc Ponty, Larry Koonse, Dave Weckl, and more.

Also this
week, veteran pianist and composer Ahmad
Jamal and his quartet offer up a new recording inspired by his return to
Studio La Buissonne in Pernes-Les Fontaines, France, “Saturday Morning: La
Buissonne Studio Sessions”; Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Gregory Porter, a California native who
as a child fell under the spell of his mother’s Nat King Cole records, makes
his Blue Note Records debut for his third release, “Liquid Spirit”; and the Matthew Finck-Jonathan Ball Project enrich
their sound with the trumpet and flugelhorn of Randy Brecker on “It’s Not That
Far.”

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